doorbell

See also: door-bell

English

Etymology

door +‎ bell

Noun

doorbell (plural doorbells)

1. A device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence. It can be mechanical, directly sounding a bell, or a button that electrically sounds a chime or buzzer inside the building.
2. A button that actives an electric doorbell.

Translations

device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence

• Arabic: جرس الباب m (jaras al-bāb)
• Armenian: դռան զանգ (dṙan zang)
• Belarusian: дзвярны́ звано́к m (dzvjarný zvanók)
• Bulgarian: вхо́ден звъне́ц m (vhóden zvǎnéc)
• Catalan: timbre (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門鈴／门铃 (zh) (ménlíng), 门铃 (zh) (ménlíng)

• Danish: dørklokke (da) c
• Dutch: deurbel (nl) m or f
• Estonian: uksekell
• Finnish: ovikello (fi)
• French: sonnette (fr) f
• Galician: timbre (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Türklingel (de) f, Klingel (de) f, Türglocke f, Hausglocke f (of a house)
• Greek: κουδούνι πόρτας n (koudoúni pórtas)
• Hungarian: csengő (hu)
• Ido: pordoklosheto (io)
• Indonesian: bel pintu
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• Italian: campanello (it) m
• Japanese: 呼び鈴 (よびりん, yobirin), ドアベル (doaberu), ドアチャイム (doachaimu)
• Korean: 초인종 (ko) (choinjong), 도어폰 (do'eopon)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Döörklock f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dørklokke m or f

  Nynorsk: dørklokke f

• Ossetian: дуары дзӕнгӕрӕг (dwary ʒængæræg)
• Polish: dzwonek do drzwi m
• Portuguese: campainha (pt) f
• Romanian: sonerie (ro) f
• Russian: дверно́й звоно́к (ru) m (dvernój zvonók), звоно́к (ru) m (zvonók)
• Spanish: timbre (es) m
• Swedish: dörrklocka (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: zil (tr), kapı zili
• Ukrainian: две́рний дзвіно́к m (dvérnyj dzvinók)
• Vietnamese: chuông cửa

Verb

doorbell (third-person singular simple present doorbells, present participle doorbelling, simple past and past participle doorbelled)

1. (intransitive) To ring many doorbells in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.
2. (transitive) To ring many doorbells of (target people or an area) in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.

   We doorbelled the whole district in an effort to get out the vote.

Anagrams

• bordello